♪ ♪ ♪ i'm laura coates. pamela brown has the night off. the top stories, as covid cases rise across the u.s., health officials in l.a. county tell cnn that mask mandates will likely return by the end of this month. also ahead, a disgraced south carolina attorney who called 911 saying that he discovered the bodies of his wife and son will now face murder charges. a new court hearing has been scheduled. and temperatures in europe hitting levels not expected for another 30 years and they're here right now. you're in the cnn "newsroom." the most contagious variant yet, ba.5 is cutting a vicious

path across this entire country. data from the cdc shows that more than half of the u.s. population lives in a county with high community transmission as we speak, and they predict we will soon see hospitalizations begin to increase as well. in los angeles county, there's a concern -- they're so concerned that they're talking about even reviving an indoor mask mandate within the next two weeks. cnn's camila bernal is at the santa monica pier with more. camila, how much have transmission rates actually increased in l.a. county? >> well, look, the county says they're seeing about 9,000 cases every single day, and the problem is that hospitalizations are increasing. they say that compared to last month they've seen an 88% increase. so for every 100,000 people that are here, 10.5 more or less, are having to be hospitalized and that's what's concerning for them. so they say that if those numbers stay or increase over

the next couple of weeks, what's going to happen is that everyone here over the age of 2 is going to have to wear a mask. you'll have to wear it if you go to a restaurant, to school, to work or just to a store and, look, yes, the numbers could go down, but officials here are very skeptical about that. here is what the director of the department of public health had to say. >> with these very high rates, unless we start seeing a slowdown in spread, a slowdown in what's happening in our hospitals, in two weeks we will do a universal indoor masking here and that will be aligned fully with cdc. i am fearful that because we continue to see those increases in cases in two weeks, our hospital numbers will not have come down. >> and i talked to a lot of people today, many telling me that, yes, they will wear the mask. they want to be careful, but the reality is that it is not going to be easy for l.a. county.

there are people who simply do not want to wear a mask and they're already used to having that freedom. so it is going to be very difficult and yet, officials say not wearing them is going to make things worse not just here in l.a. county, but we're seeing those increases all over the country and the case rates are the highest they've been in months and the cdc is also saying and forecasting an increase in hospitalizations for the first time in weeks also, because we've been seeing those steady numbers and instead with this variant, what we're seeing is with these numbers increasing and the concern, the worry is those hospitalizations. laura? >> those numbers, the way they're going up, camila bernal, thank you so much. it's hard to have the yo-yo approach of having people get used to not having them on and now having them on again and those numbers and the maps you just showed are stunning. thank you. you know, last hour i sat down with dr. anthony fauci, and i asked him as officials in california's l.a. county say

they could bring back universal indoor masking and how other communities would reconsider mask mandates again. >> if you look at the map that you're looking at now, a substantial proportion of the population is in that orange zone and a lot more in the yellow zone. orange means recommend, wearing masks and in an indoor congregant setting. it is clear that some jurisdictions that have a high level of virus circulating will make that decision that they will mandate a mask, but that will be left up to the local jurisdictions to make that decision because each state, each county might be different from the other so you don't want to make a universal declaration about whether it's a good idea or not. it has to be decided at the local level. >> well, meantime, we're

following the search for a missing university of mississippi student. jay lee's father is pleading with the public. nadia romero is following details. >> the search continues for that missing college student and we are asking anyone with any information to please come forward. jimmy lee who also goes by the nickname jay was last seen last friday july 8th at 6:00 in the morning outside the campus walk apartments. you can see here his car was recovered by police on monday at molly bar trails apartment complex and that's just over two and a half miles away. some photos and videos lee is wearing dresses and makeup. a local station says they caught up with lee's sister who was with others in the community doing a search on a nearby trail. take a listen. >> just to see people come out and actually help us that shows us that there's actually some people in this world that actually care. if there's anybody out there

that know anything, anything, it's just anything, a simple clue, a simple piece, a simple something, just to get something to find him, pretty much, because that's all we want. >> jimmy lee's sister says it is impacting students at ole miss, reading in part, we understand that this may be a very distressing time for members of our campus community and you may feel a need to speak with someone. students who need assistance can access support services from the university and that statement goes on to identify ways students can reach out for help and talk to someone about what's going on. police tell us they've executed a dozen search warrants on digital and physical elements along with interviewing people in the area. they're urging people to come forward even with the smallest tip that can help them find jimmy lee. laura? >> nadia romero, thank you. you never know what you may have seen. if you have information please help that family.

deeply harmful to our nation. those words today from vice president kamala harris about the supreme court's decision to overturn roe versus wade as she reaffirmed the president's commitment to protect women's reproductive rights, the vice president did sound the alarm about the repercussions stemming from that decision. >> we are talking about a situation in our nation right now where states and so-called leaders are passing laws that would criminalize medical health professionals, healthcare providers. we are talking about several states in our nation who will not allow an exception for rape or incest. >> that scenario is actually playing out in indiana right now where a physician is under investigation for providing

abortion services to a 10-year-old rape victim. cnn's polo sandoval joins me now. that doctor is starting to fight back, right? >> her name is dr. caitlin bernard. she's come forward and identified herself as the doctor who helped terminate the pregnancy of that 10-year-old in ohio and now she's finding herself the subject of the investigation that's being led by the state's republican attorney general looking into the potential failure to report an abortion. recall, it was just a few days ago that todd rokita took to fox news announcing he would launch an investigation and look into whether or not the doctor violated the state law that an abortion to anyone, cnn was able to obtain the documents that do show that the doctor did report

that abortion only two days after it was done. those -- we did reach out to a.g. rokita's office saying they're still gathering information on the investigation that was launcheda, announced on fox news and that legal review remains open and that's where the debate begins. when you hear from the attorney representing dr. bernard. no review would be necessary if you were to look up some of those publicly available documents and that is why she sense a cease-and-desist letter to the attorney general and calling on him to, quote, stop making false and misleading statements about alleged misconduct by dr. bernard and her profession. just last night that attorney had a conversation with our colleague aaerin burnett and th colleague calling this investigation calling it a smear campaign. >> even the barest minimum of homework on his part would have found that that report would have been timely done. so we want limhim to stop the sr

and to stop this dangerous rhetoric that he's using where he's whipping people up into a frenzy at a very unsettled time in our nation's history and we want to make sure that our client stays safe. >> that attorney also saying that they're basically laying the groundwork for a possible civil case. we'll have to see what exactly the next steps will be if dr. bernard. after that cease-and-desist letter it was sent back to the attorney general and we did reach back out to the attorney general and we are still waiting to hear back from them. >> polo sandoval, thank you. the fact that we're not talking about the rape of of a 10-year-old girl and the idea of having to go to another state and instead the focus on the doctor is quite telling at this point in american present and history. thank you so much. >> thank you. and this just in to cnn, professional race car driver bobby east was apparently stabbed to death at a california gas station earlier this week and moments ago cnn has

confirmed that the suspect is dead, shot and killed during a confrontation with police and also s.w.a.t. team members. east was pumping gas at a 76 station not far away when he was stabbed in the chest on wednesday afternoon. the suspect was on parole for arme armed robbery and had an unrelated arrest for him. the accused killer became confrontational when they tried to take him into custody. east who was just 37 yoors old is being remembered as one of the most prolific drivers of his era. you are in the cnn "newsroom." coming up this hour, the bombshells keep dropping in the january 6th investigation. tonight kwoets the new york times" reporting that a right-wing lawyer suggesting donald trump declare martial law to subvert the 2020 election. >> and also ahead, could your

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the supreme court owe decision to overturn roe v. wade has far-reaching implications and in some states abortion and related actions now fall into the realm of crime and punishment and that's particularly concerning to many lawmakers and that includes democratic kl kohl senator michael bennett. >> senator, thank you for being with us today. it's really important to have this conversation because you and your democratic colleagues actually introduced new legislation to protect the right to cross for state lines, to seek reproductive health care. >> we just covered the story about a 10-year-old little girl having to do so and the tragedy of that is just unspeakable.

>> the senate republicans, as you know, blocked that bill, senator. i wonder where do democrats go from here to protect women's reproductive right in light of that dobbs decision? >> well, this is the first time, laura, in the history of our country that a fundamental constitutional right has been stripped away. i read all of the opinions including alito's opinion. i don't think he grappled at all with the fundamental nature of this right, and i think he didn't understand some of the collateral damage and already just in a week or ten days we're seeing it. you know, there are legislators and elected officials across the country for whom reversing roe isn't even enough. they want to now penalize women who are free americans, who are trying to travel across state lines to protect themselves, and to access abortions and other health care services. so last week, we tried to pass a bill that would prevent that and

it would protect doctors like the doctor in indiana, dr. bernard who is confronting an attorney general who is trying to go after for a 10-year-old rape victim's abortion. this is an insane country -- or this insane situation that the court has created for us. so i think it's important for us to keep pushing. the most important thing for us to do is to elect pro-choice majorities in the u.s. senate and the u.s. house and to pass a law that codifies row and re-establishes that has been fundamental in this country. >> when you've got the idea of the notion of outlawing something, how are you able to criminalize it? there are different facets and nuances, you wrote when this opinion came out, you wrote this ruling was not the last word. the question people had,

senator, can congress codify making it illegal and this is a patchwork of states and can that codification tobacco done given t qualifications of it? >> i have no doubt that we will codify roe versus wade at some points. the question is how much damage to people's liberty, freedom and health will be done before then? we don't have the votes to do it today, but i have no doubt that we'll have pro-choice majorities in the house and the senate because the american people, 70% of them don't think this right should be overturned, unfortunately, and nationally, i think we have to do it because this isn't just the state's rights issue. one of the calls i got when roe versus wade was overturned was from a woman who served in the armed forces and said michael, what's going to happen to these

women who are on bases in alabama, mississippi and other states where abortion is banned and even if you pay for the abortion, and even if the federal government says we can pay for people to travel and no one has a right to privacy anymore. that's been destroyed. we see what's happening in ind yna iana and ohio with the 10-year-old rape victim and the right to privacy has been shattered and this could have happened to millions and millions and millions of american women. >> it's important you talk about the collateral aspect and i'm glad that you raised the issue of the military and there's been a conversation about whether this would impact readiness and other factors, as well and it's important to think of the nuances in particular and there's a new cnn poll out tonight -- a new cnn poll that averaged the ratings for president biden's handling of the preg densy. >> 39% of americans approve of

the job he's doing. 58%, however, disapprove of the job he's doing. i'm wondering, given, you said the notion of having a pro-choice majority or the retention of majority of the democrats in general, are you concerned that the president's overall rating as leader of the party will impact others' re-election campaign including yours? >> i think that any president with the inflation numbers that we're seeing and with the energy prices that we're seeing would have challenging numbers. i think it would be true if it were a democrat or republican, if it were anybody. >> i'm grateful to joe biden that he ran for president because i think he was the one american out of 330 million americans who could beat donald trump and i deeply appreciate the fact that he provided that service to our country, and i remain grateful for it. it's important for people to understand that we're seeing these inflation numbers and these energy price increases in almost every country in the

world. if you look at the uk, the eu, canada, india. the numbers are very, very similar because this isn't joe biden causing this. it is the result of broken supply chains that have made it very difficult when we've recovered as an economy to be able to deliver stuff and it gets a lot more expensive as a result and not to mention energy prices increasing because the economy has recovered and putin has invaded ukraine. so that's cold comfort to people in colorado. they're paying $4.80 today for gasoline and we've had a decline in gas prices for the last 32 days and i hope we will continue to see that decline and it's important for the american people to understand that we are all facing these challenges together. it's not just the united states of america. >> speaking of that, i mean, part of what you mentioned, the idea of climate issues and climate action, democratic senator joe manchin dropped a pretty big bomb in the biden

agenda. he seems to remain a thorn in the side of the cohesion of the democratic party and he'll not support sweeping climate action and tax provisions in the economic recovery legislation and that provisions negotiate lower prescription drug prices and instead enhance affordable care act subsidies and it's basically what's left of the president's build back better plan. is that acceptable to you? >> well, laura. you're right to describe it that way, is basically what's left. those are two major things. if we can reduce drug prices for the american people, have medicare negotiate drug prices on behalf of the american people, american citizens and cap seniors out of pocket costs of $2,000 and those are major victories that i've been fighting for a long time. if you can keep insurance rates for increasing by extending the subsidies for people's buying affordable care act, and that's

major, too. so it is very important for us to do those two things, and i will support it. >> having said all that, my state is being virtually incinerated by climate change. we have no water left in the colorado river. we're having the worst fires in our state's history. i've tried to make senator manchin understand what it's like to be liveriing in a state where we are so challenged with climate change. so far i've been unsuccessful. what we need to do as a country is understand that we don't have an energy policy. the united states of america needs one because the policy we're pursuing today, you know, and have been for many years is inflationary. it doesn't -- it doesn't advance our national security and it's really bad at reducing emissions, and i believe we can develop an energy policy that does all of those things and helps not only support our

national security, but drives economic growth for our country and dramatically reduces emissions. that's what we have to do. >> senator bennett, i remember when you ran for president you were concerned with similar policies on that very notion. >> almost nobody does remember that i ran. >> no, i certainly remember, and you know what? if you think memories are somehow lacking are you intending to run again? >> i don't know, laura. i'm up right now for re-election to the senate, and as you pointed out, this is a very, very tough cycle for democrats. i've had tough races in the past in 2010 and 2016. i know this is going to be a tough race, as well, but i think i've got a good record for my state, and i'm looking forward to the campaign, and i'm looking forward to getting re-elected so i can go back and create an economy that when it grows, it grows for everybody and not just the top 10%.

we can create energy approximately see, as i said what drives the economy forward and reduces emissions so that we can save this democracy. that's what's really on the ballot, and i hope that everybody in america at some point is protected by a fundamental rate that roe versus wade has and the way everybody in colorado has the chance to vote. that's key to saving the democracy, as well. >> didn't hear a "no" exactly, senator and i certainly remember your run. thank you for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. >> thanks, laura. thanks for having me. well, next week the january 6th committee will hold its final public hearing. are they uncovering anything new? my next guest doesn't think so. i'll talk to washington post columnist, gary abernathy next. newfound happiness and zero surprises. and all of us will stop at nothing

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the january 6th hearings aren't over, as you know, but a new opinion piece in "the washington post" raises the question of whether they've been a waste of time. contributing columnist abernathy doesn't dispute it was valid or that donald trump refused to take part in the peaceful transfer of power, but he does argue, quote, despite breathless previews of coming attractions, little has changed since the hearings began beyond what was already established, and gary abernathy joins me tonight. welcome, gary. i'm really curious about your piece and it's a very interesting one and very thought provoking and i wonder of all

that we've seen, we're seven hearings in and the eighth to happen this thursday at prime time. we have cassidy hutchinson and pat cipollone and the capitol police officers and the georgia election workers and add jeffrey rosen and richard don hugh and those from arizona none of that moved the needle for you in any way? >> no. again, i'm someone like you, laura. i follow the news, and i'm aware of almost all these things that have been talked about in the committee. maybe there are people watching who don't follow the news that closely and they're learning new things. we've certainly had details adding to things we previously knew, but here's the problem. i'm someone who was a big trump supporter, four or five, six years ago now. i worked at a newspaper that was one of the few newspapers to endorse trump for president in 2016, and so i'm still glad he was president, but what he did by refusing to accept the elections results which led to the january 6th riot and then

even just as bad on january 20th we have the spectacle of joe biden taking the oath of office with donald trump nowhere in sight to show appreciation for the peaceful transfer of power. that was disgraceful. so i think republicans should move away from trump. i'm all for that, but i think the committee risked going a step too far, laura, in trying to build a criminal case against trump and trying to say that the radical groups like the proud boys and the oath keepers were taking directions from him if you connect dot a to b and to c and we can look at what trump said and affected these people, i just don't think they're going to build that kind of a case. >> to be fair that they're a legislative committee and not a prosecutorial body like doj and they were talking about connecting the dots and are you concerned about whether they did not manage expectations and

overpromised to connect those dots and maybe they were inspired by the former president, or were they instructed by the former president. here a here's the thing, the idea of who you think the audience is here, you have told me in the past that you think they're pree pre preaching to the choir. are the pews not open to others and it's closed universe that people are watching and not those that should be. >> yeah, i talk to a lot of people. where i live is very heavy trump country and they're just not paying attention. i'll try to bring up the conversation, have you watched it? >> no. the people watching it are people who hated donald trump anyway, and you know, i worry, laura that they're really falling into the category of a

michael moore documentary like "fahrenheit 911" with george w. bush and how he handled that and without the challenging of the witnesses and without any skepticism being expressed by any member of the committee, it would be interesting, i think, for all americans to have some of this testimony challenged a little bit. i'm not saying anyone's lying, but wouldn't it be more interesting? i know this is not a drill, but still, most hearings do include that kind of back and forth questioning and not just softballs where everyone just kind of nods and accepts what's taken at face value. >> you can talk to kevin mccarthy because there was the opportunity to have that be more broad, on the one hand. on the other hand, it could very well be that you're not hearing different challenges because you're actually hearing from people who were in the rooms where they happen.

th of course, we'll talk more about this. we have a few seconds left and i am glad you came, gary. i am curious in your perspective, do you think that in the next hearing we'll bridge the gap that we will close the gap of what you want to know more about or draw in an audience? it is prime time. >> more people will watch it because it's prime time. i haven't read the numbers lately and it's probably the most watch of the hearing because people will watch that way and especially in the midterms, people are voting in high glass prices and it will drive that vote. >> it goes back to gariet abernathy. >> thank you, laura. >> you're in the cnn "newsroom" and a prominent and disgraced south carolina attorney is now accused of murdering his own wife and son. so what's next for alex

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once a legal dynasty, now the murdaugh family is in ruins. this week prominent attorney alex murdaugh was indicted by a grand jury in south carolina for the 2021 murders of his wife and son. the motive? millions of dollars in life insurance, they believe. cnn's diane gallagher has more on this bizarre tragedy. >> the murder indictments handed down by the south carolina grand jury on thursday allege it was alex murdaugh who pulled the trigger. and yes, i said triggers as in plural. the indictments have very few details in them, but what they do say is that alex murdaugh shot and killed his 52-year-old wife maggie with a rifle and that he shot and killed his

22-year-old son paul with a shotgun. murdaugh was once a powerful and prominent attorney here in the low country area from a very prominent legal family, but he was disbarred earlier this week by the state supreme court. murdaugh's attorneys released a statement soon after those indictments were handed down that said in part alexme wants s family, friends and everyone that he had nothing to do with the murders of maggy and paul. he loved them more than anything in the world. it was clear from day one that law enforcement and the attorney general prematurely concluded that alex was responsible for the murder of his wife and son and we know he did not have any motive whatsoever to murder them. >> his attorneys plan to request a speedy trial that they want to get whatever evidence that law enforcement says they have out in the open and hope all of this can be ginn to unfold some time within the next 90 days or so, and we said there is not much detail included in those

indictments and that is likely when we would learn more information, but a source tells cnn they may be looking at some information including a potential of blood spatter on murdaugh's clothing which could indicate a close firing of a rifle at close range. murdaugh was already in jail because he has a $7 million bond on some of the more 70 financial-related charges pending against him with a slew of former clients and other victims saying he defrauded them, but the nation, not just the low country, has been gripped bithis case because of all of the mystery that surrounds it. much of that going back to the initial arrest of murdaugh where it was that bizarre roadside attempted suicide for hire insurance fraud plot and then there are the death investigations. three of those investigations have either been opened or re-opened in the past year that are connected in some way to the

murdaugh family, in addition, think, to the murders of maggie and paul. again, alex murdaugh is in jail, but he will appear for a bond hearing on those murder indictments on wednesday of next week. diane gallagher, cnn, charleston, south carolina. >> wow. diane gallagher, thank you so much. i want to bring in cnn legal analyst lonnie coombs. this is an unbelievable case. some of the evidence could be blood splatter on murdaugh's own clothes and he is also the one that called 911 and we know he's on the scene in some way. if you're the prosecutor in this case, this is helpful to you. >> absolutely. great to be with you, laura. i would be thrilled to have this blood spatter everyday. it's high-velocity blood spatter from an assault rifle. we know the indictment the shotgun was for paul, for maggie an assault rifle type was used

and was shot in the back perhaps when she was fleeing and when she was down she was shot several more times. to get that high-velocity blood spat or your clothing you have to be in close range. so if they were able to link the blood spatter on his clothing, that basically puts him there at the time she was killed. >> not just having blood on one's clothing, but the idea but coming out of a victim in that particular way as you describe, it's heart wrenching to think about it. he's facing a litany of charges and most financials and i wonder how this will impact when he's being held on a $7 million bond and how will that impact it? >> well, look, i think it's going to end up -- the cases will influence each other, right? they're still not talking about what the motive was in these cases and juries want to know what the motive is in the murder

case, so he has all of these financial charges from money laundering, embezzlement to insurance fraud and we know that three months after this murder he has confessed that he hired someone to kill himself so that his son can get the insurance money from his own death. so we know what he's thinking about, his state of mind. so most likely this financial disaster that he was going through and the desperation that ended up being the motive for why he allegedly killed his wife and son. >> lonny, you are so right as a prosecutor, sometimes even when you have the who, the jury won't satisfy until they know the why and they won't convict on that point. i want to turn to abortion because text experts who say the phones of women who travel to seek abortions could be used against them in prosecuting abortion cases. i wonder what level of access could an investigator have? there's the idea of privacy and the idea of someone being able to have this data on their phones and how it's going to be used? what is your thought in terms of how one would be able to even prosecute using someone's data

in this fashion in a way that we've never seen? >> yeah, laura, this is so important for people to think about now in our post-roe world, right? so for many years, as you and i know as prosecutors we've had access to all of this information, right? on any case, we would get a search warrant or a subpoena and get access to a suspect's cell phone data because we want to know if they're talking in their texts about plotting this crime or their location tracker shows they were near the crime at the time or their financial data shows they got a payout after the crime. all great evidence for a prosecutor to prove that a crime occurred. now change that crime to abortion. abortion is now the crime. i heard you, laura soy so brilliantlily, if abortion is the crime your body is the crime scene. every decision, every action that you make about your body becomes evidence that can be used to prove whether that

abortion occurred or not. so your text message to your friend, oh, my goodness, i'm pregnant. what do i do? the abortion pill and you're paying for a pregnancy test with your credit card. your tracker showing you're driving to an abortion clinic and all of this information that was private and once abortion becomes a crime it is now evidence that can be used against you to prove if you got an abortion or not. >> or a fertility app. >> loni coombs, unbelievable. thank you soso much. we'll be right back. right under their nonose. or... his nose. with angi, you can connect with and see ratings and reviews. and when you book and pay throug you're covered by our happines check out angi.com today. gi... and done. waxed. natural. sensitive. new dove ultimate antiperspirant.

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